If the OLCC does not grant a license to an establishment, they are unable to sell liquor to it. OLCC is in the business of selling booze to make money to continue to justify their existence. Of course they approved this license (and just about every other). If Oregonians want a true liquor enforcement agency, it must be decoupled from the agency responsible for selling liquor.

+1 to the neighborhood for use of the term "vegetable-wielding strippers."